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Geetangalie’s Self Reflection #1

Posted by Geetangalie Goberdan on

 

For my lab report, I wrote about the effects of potassium chloride (KCl) on the swimming speed of Paramecium. In this report, I could improve on my making my report more inclusive for readers. For this report, I had a specific audience, those who have has basic knowledge of biology on the college level. In my report, I spoke of certain lab techniques that might not be common knowledge for students with non-science majors. Taking time in the report to give more details on execution might have benefited my report.

In creating this composition, the most difficult section was the justification. A justification is found at the beginning of a scientific lab report where you state what led to you choosing the experiment you did and what made you come to the assumption you have made in your hypothesis. If I were to do something differently it would be finding out more research on the chemical I used. This would, in turn, help me to construct a stronger justification, because I would have a secure reason behind my hypothesis.

In my opinion, I did best on creating efficient data analysis tables with appropriate labels. I did well not only at computing the numbers correctly but with writing captions and titles also. I used precise significant figures and broke the data into sections that would be easily interpreted. I made sure to not only use tables but graphs to present the data in different forms to show their significance.

I believe, that based on the work I have submitted, I deserve a grade of an A. My lab report was sufficient in detail while keeping it to the point. In scientific lab reports, it is important to give the important details without sentence padding, and I believe I have done so efficiently. I have presented all the information needed to replicate such an experiment while keeping to the true scientific method form.  In my opinion, I would lose points for not having other visual aids. Although I did have tables and figures, and it is not necessary to have other images, the addition of myself actually doing the experiment and the tools I used would make it easier for outsiders to replicate the experiment and not get confused.

 

Week #6 Response/Week #6 Response

Geetangalie’s Week #6 Response

Posted by Geetangalie Goberdan on

In Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “The Offspring,” we learn of a new artificial intelligence aboard the Starfleet enterprise. During his off time, Data creates an Android based on his own structure. He names this creation Lal and claims it as his own child. At the beginning of the episode, the AI is gender neutral and lacks basic skills. Data taking on the role as father allows Lal to choose its gender and we get to see it choose female from the thousands of choices. At this point, Data and Lal are ready to begin Lal’s training in social skills at the most elementary level. Lal has many difficulties with simple tasks and tends to be socially awkward, this does not discourage her from continuing to better herself.

The problem first raised was when Captain Picard initially finds out about Data creating Lal in secrecy and furthermore the fact that he has named her his child. Captain Picard believed it was completely wrong, as he sees Lal as an invention, not a child. The captain later drops this mentality as Deanna Troi presents the question of “Why should biology rather than technology determine whether it is a child?”

Upon finding out of Lal, the head of Starfleet decides it is right for them to obtain ownership of the creation in which they can also observe and experiment with her. Data was totally opposed to this as Lal is his daughter and believes he should be the one raising her. In the end, while the intense debate was occurring over who should keep Lal, they get a call about Lal’s health. Lal turns out to be unsalvageable and she must be turned off.

Ethics in the medical field is a broad topic as doctors are faced to make ethical decisions every day. One common example is when dealing with patients who cannot afford medical assistance, whether it be their medications or scans. Technology plays a huge role in medicine as it is used to do what the human cannot, in the case of efficiency or ability among others.

Posts/Week #7 Response

Hakeem Leonce week 7 response

Posted by Hakeem Leonce on

When I first seen this episode it made me give a second thought of what social media has evolved to over time. How it became not only so powerful but also a ruler of many. Seeing how much people’s’ thoughts and behaviors can be influenced based on the electrical documentation of what may be but also what may not be. I thought of places such as LA, NYC, MIA and ATL and how lives promoted through social media can make so many people think that it a reality that they should try to obtain. Somehow a picture or a minute long video with a high count of likes and comment gained equivalence to something like a impactful individual in real life.

In my personal experiences, I consciously avoid giving social media power to determine an individual’s perceived personhood, especially if I have not meet and had a chance to know who that person is for myself. I really use it for memes, funny videos, and sometimes for motivational purposes. So I do not post much often when it comes to things that i do, accomplish or even going through. So for me what people see or like of me in regards to the things I post doesn’t really touch a spot for me.

My response to the narrative of the movie is while understanding it current relevance, I feel like it is very accurate. Yes, the general motive behind searching for likes are for momentary pleasure, it has become to large that social media itself can move you up economical classes.

Week #7 Response/Week #7 Response

Kayla’s Week 7 Response

Posted by Kayla Ye on

I think that this episode of Black Mirror Nosedive is more relevant than it ever has been and only will continue to prevail as time goes on. This is because in this episode, it depicts what society might relaly become someday. As I called it, it’s a Yelp but for people but in this case, people are trying hard to fake their impressions. Trying ever so hard to get that five-star rating by partaking in useless events and impressing strangers. This isn’t my first time watching this episode yet somehow each time, I’m more and more surprised at how relatable its has become as time progresses. It instills a sense of fear to be honest, that one day we all have to fake to be nice and pretend to be happy and caring for people we don’t even know when even in days like today, I tend to ignore my best friends for hours so I can do homework. In the episode I could see some parallels already forming, an example being when Lacie orders a drink from the café just to take a nice picture even though it tastes, judging from her expression disgusting. My mother for example does the same, she always tells me to take her fancy places to eat so she can take nice pictures and post them on her social media and her friends can compliment her. My friends mothers do the same and we always talk about how our parents are putting on such a fake type of lifestyle for others to see.

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Reflection #1

Posted by Alexander Rao on

Upon reflection,

 

This lab report assignment was quite useful to me as one who is going back to school and hoping to study engineering. This kind of work is not something that I have done in a long time, but I will be expected to know how to do it well enough that I can complete a report on my own. The report that I have done is basic but includes all of the parts of a proper report with enough information for the experiment to be repeated. Because the materials and procedures for a pinewood derby car race are very time consuming and resource heavy to recreate, I simulated the experiment in theory. I did not actually conduct it. This means that the data that I ‘collected’ is completely fabricated and in this case tailored to support my hypothesis. This clearly saved a lot of time on the whole process leaving just the actual report to put effort into. The report itself was time consuming mostly because of the graphic media and tables that I included. I am completely unfamiliar with graphic design, so making the design blueprints was a separate learning process with a new program (TDI Technical Drawing and Illustration) but they are necessary to making a clear report in this case. The learning process was essentially trial and error. I first made the blueprints by hand (actually the entire report, to simulate doing the actual experiment) and proceeded to learn a way to make the same thing digitally. I also refamiliarized myself with spread sheet making and using formulas. The actual text of my report is simple, as the experiment itself is basic and the supplies are all standardized. The report could include more details about the materials and procedure, however these details are not necessary to recreate the experiment’s function, so they were not added in plethora. I wanted to make sure that I kept the report clear and did not add confusion. I feel like the learning that I did was not in the amount of useless details I could invent, but rather that I refamiliarized myself with thinking through a process in a scientific manner. I believe that the skills I used/practiced are transmutable to any size project, and that the only difference would be the technicality of the description of the pieces of the experiment.

Having said all of this, I would assign myself a B – for this assignment as it shows understanding of the basics of the project and how to apply them, however the project itself and the report could include more details and high level calculations and data points. Also, the things in the project that use standard of ‘official’ measurement could be described in detail, instead of assuming the person reading will find the same/correct standards. Another draft will likely be done, adding new information and a more in depth analysis of why the experiment resulted in the data that it did.

Digital Receipt #7/Digital Receipt #7

Dig # 7

Posted by Tanvir Youhana on

This show from the beginning showed how fake people’s lives can be.

When she was laughing creepy in the mirror made me realized how insecure she was about herself.

Also, I realized how humans always want to feel accepted by others and they want others to like them.

This system of rating people based on their social media accounts and every single interaction that you have with others is not a good system to determine if a person is mentally stable to be in society.

The most creative minds nowadays didn’t even graduate college and they have achieved such great things

I also have seen some of the behaviors mentioned in this show in society now. For example, people posting everything they do on social media. Stalking people’s social media too if they are popular or not.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to base how people are around what rating they get. You should be willing to get to know the person.

This show also shows how the world seems to be going towards because of all the futuristic technologies that I see in the show.

I have also noticed that this system of rating is like something in society today, which is you are either poor, middle class, or rich. If you are rich you can go anywhere and anyplace. The middle class can get around places and get what they want sometimes. Finally, there are the poor people that don’t get what they want and don’t get to go where they want. They are outcasted by society and don’t have the money to survive with the essentials.

-Tanvir Youhana

Week #7 Response/Week #7 Response

QianXing’s Weekly Response #7

Posted by QianXing Ou on

After watching Black Mirror Season 3 episode 1, it makes me feel very unfortunate for Lacie. She was a great, enthusiastic girl with a 4.2 grade.( from my understanding the grade is scale from 1 to 5, meaning her grade was pretty high)  Then because she wants to join a program that require a grade of 4.5, she tries every possible thing to increase her grade, so she decides to go to her friend’s wedding and make a speech and hope that she can increase her grade. At the end, her grade drops dramatically and she ended up in the jail.

I feel this is relatable to me.  When I post something online, I always hope that more people will like my post.  I feel bad if only a few people liked my post. I feel like this is an unhealthy behavior since it is just a post, an online post. Why do I have to care so much? However, even if I tell myself about that, I still care about the likes. I still care about the impression that other people are having on me. Same thing happen with other people. When I watch videos on youtube, those youtubers always want more likes for their videos. If they get enough likes, they will make more videos. On the other hand, if they get little or no likes, they will not keep doing it.  Those likes or “grades” online is just like the money that we use in the real world. We need them to work harder. Even though I think likes are important because it encourages people to work harder and produce work with great quality, too much of it will be terrible. It will take over your soul and controls you to do something you don’t agree.

Social media is a powerful tool. Some candidates use social media to convince people to vote for them. Also, it gives people a chance to know about other people’s daily life. People can also use this to share their own life. All of these are benefits of social media.  However, if people become too serious about this, it might have the opposite effect. There’s a famous quote from Albert Einstein-”I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Don’t let social media controls you. You should be the one controlling it.

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